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Show WOULD LET STATES REGULATE LIQUOR Ex-president Taft Declares National Prohibition Is a pangcrous . Proposition. BOSTON, Dec. 2$. "National prohibition prohibi-tion is a dangerous proposition," said former President William H. Taft, speaking speak-ing before the Bar association of Boston at its seventeenth triennial banquet tu.-night. tu.-night. "It would revolutionize tlie national na-tional government. It would put on ahe shoulders of the government tlie duty of sweeping the doorsteps of even- home in the land. If national prohibition legislation legisla-tion is passed, local government would be destroyed. And if you destrov local government, you destrov one of t he things that go to make for a healthy condition of the national government. "National prohibition Is nonenforcible. It is a confession on the part of state governments, of inability to control and regulate their own especial business and duty. If the matter were placed under federal control it would result in erea-tion erea-tion of a machinery of government offi- i eials large enough to nominate any! president, and would offer loo great an opportunity to persons seeking to per- petuate their power in 'Washington." |